Ā`isha said, “Never did the Messenger of Allāh completed the fasting of a month except for Ramadān. And I have never seen Him in a month fasting more therein except Sha`bān.”2

And she said:

Allah’s Apostle used to fast till one would say that he would never stop fasting, and he would abandon fasting till one would say that he would never fast. I never saw Allah’s Apostle fasting for a whole month except the month of Ramadan, and did not see him fasting in any month more than in the month of Sha`ban.3

و لمسلم “كان يصوم شعبان كله , كان يصوم شعبان إلا قليلا”

It is related, “He used to fast the whole of Sha`bān except a few days.”4

Ibn al-Mubārak (ra) says that the Prophet (s) didnt complete fasting the entire month of Sha`bān, but that he used to fast most of it as Allāmah al-Imām al-Hāfizh Zayn ad-Dīn bin Rajab al-Hanbalī said in his book, Latāif al-Ma`ārif.

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